tabula rasa

This is what we had to start with. Not a pretty site to be sure. The only good thing was that the roof had never leaked. The roof was still 100 years old and neither my father or myself felt comfortable with dumping over $200k under a 100 year old roof. All the other houses (302, 308, and 314 E Fourth all looked about the same when we started. Still a cool house nonetheless. it had "tails" on the soffits all the way around and lots of windows and porches. Four porches that went from corner to corner on front and back of the house. What did we find inside? Well an old fridge with KFC still in there, dead pigeons, library books, clothing. All kinds of good stuff. When my friend Bryan and I broke into these houses about four or five years ago it smelled pretty bad. The house had been cut up into little apartments. About 6 of them. One room was painted a high gloss green with popcorn. popcorn was sprayed everywhere, even on the walls and mantle.